50 Key Thinkers - About
About the 50 Key Thinkers Forum
The 50 Key Thinkers Forum, held on 12 May 2011, was a solutions-based conversation on how New Zealand can address current and future social challenges within the constraints of the economic environment. Participants shared fresh thinking and innovative practice to respond to the Government’s challenge to think outside the square.
The forum was invitation-only and participants were chosen to bring a diversity of backgrounds, experience, networks and knowledge. We deliberately went outside of government to get grassroots solutions-based thinkers and decision-makers.
The forum also included a series of workshops to tap the ideas and solutions developed by the participants. To ensure solutions were unearthed, expert facilitation was provided to the workshop participants and discussions were fed back to the group. Many of the invitees are already involved with innovative, family-focused programmes that work. Their knowledge can be shared and expanded.
The Commission will work with government and government agencies to ensure the momentum for innovation and change gets past bureaucratic barriers so that it can have a real impact upon policy and service delivery decision-making.
In addition, the ideas from the forum will be shared with a wider community of Māori, community and voluntary sector organisations and other stakeholders with a view to generationg action, sharing principles of innovative practice, and improving cross-sector communication and collaboration.
The Commission expects that this will be the first of a number of conversations with key thinkers about social innovation.
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